B40 Express Car with Central Islip State hospital drill engine coupled to it laying up on the Central Islip team track 1933 Photo: George G. Ayling Archive: Dave Keller

As a baggage/express car, the class B40 cars were not designed as RPO (Railway Post Office) cars. As a point of curiosity, the window at the right of this image has a leftover sticker for the 1932 presidential candidate Herbert Hoover that someone stuck to the barred window. The bars were a security feature as express cars frequently carried cash remittances from way stations into the main office in Jamaica as well as cash payrolls and cash that was being carried privately. Research: Dave Keller